Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Death row inmate Ralph Menzies appears in court on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, where 3rd District Judge Matthew Bates signed an ...

In simple terms, a commutation reduces a criminal penalty. This may include shortening a prison sentence or replacing a death sentence with life imprisonment. Unlike a pardon, which forgives a crime ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Utah Board of Pardons & Parole met with media to explain the process if death row inmate Ralph Menzies is granted a commutation hearing. His attorneys have asked the Board ...

MURRAY — Prosecutors have until the end of the workday Wednesday to file their response to death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies's request for a commutation hearing. Menzies, 67, is scheduled to be ...

In Wisconsin, the last time there was a commutation — a reduction of a criminal sentence by the governor’s authority to grant clemency — it was during Republican Tommy Thompson’s administration ...